Safe Trip Home

Safe Trip Home
Studio album by Dido
Publication (s)	November 17, 2008
Label (s)	RCA / Sony / Cheeky / Arista
Format (s)	CD, download
Genre (s)	Electropop
Title (number)	11
running time	49:46
chronology Life for Rent Safe Trip Home Girl Who Got Away
Single releases August 22, 2008 Look no further October 27, 2008 Don't believe in love

Safe Trip Home is the third studio album by British singer Dido .

Track list

No.	title	Songwriter	length
1.	Don't believe in love	Dido Armstrong , Jon Brion , Rollo Armstrong	3:53
2.	Quiet Times	Dido	3:17
3.	Never Want to Say It's Love	Dido, Jon Brion, Rollo Armstrong	3:35
4th	Grafton Street	Dido, Rollo Armstrong, Brian Eno	5:59
5.	It comes and it goes	Dido, Jon Brion, Rollo Armstrong	3:28
6th	Look no further	Dido, Jon Brion, Rollo Armstrong	3:14
7th	Us 2 Little Gods	Dido, Rollo Armstrong, Daisy Gough, Rick Nowels	4:49
8th.	The Day Before the Day	Dido, Rollo Armstrong	4:13
9.	Let's Do the Things We Normally Do	Dido, Jon Brion	4:10
10.	Burnin Love (with Citizen Cope )	Dido, Clarence Greenwood	4:12
11.	Northern Skies	Dido, Rollo Armstrong	8:57

Deluxe Edition Bonus CD
No.	title	Songwriter	length
1.	For one day	Dido	5:43
2.	Buzzer	Dido	3:55
3.	Northern Skies (Rollo Version)	Dido, Rollo Armstrong	5:53
4th	The Day Before the Day (Early Mix)	Dido, Rollo Armstrong	4:14
5.	Dido Studio Films

publication

On August 22, 2008, she released Look No Further as a free download on her website, and her first single for sale was Don't Believe in Love . Along with this announcement, the name of the album Safe Trip Home was announced. The original release date was November 4th, 2008. In Europe, the album was finally released on November 17th, 2008, in North America one day later. Don't Believe in Love was released three weeks earlier, and as a download four weeks earlier.

Cover

A section from this NASA image was used as the album cover

The cover showed NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless doing his first spacewalk without a safety line. The photo was from 1984. McCandless sued Dido, Getty Images and Sony Music in 2010 , because he saw in the use a violation of his personal rights; he did not own the copyrights to the picture.

Charts

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	3 (14 weeks)	14th
Austria (Ö3)	11 (8 weeks)	8th
Switzerland (IFPI)	1 (17 weeks)	17th
United Kingdom (OCC)	2 (10 weeks)	10
United States (Billboard)	13 (10 weeks)	10

reception

source	rating
AllMusic
The Observer
Entertainment Weekly	B.
Sputnik Music
The Guardian
Slant
PopMatters

The album received mostly positive reviews. Metacritic gave it a score of 74/100 based on 14 reviews. Of these, five were mixed and nine were positive.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic praised the album as a little less calm than the two previous albums. He described the songs as more subtle and rich, but also deeper and more complex. The album is powerful and calming with melancholy features. Stephanie Merritt from the Observer described the album as strongly influenced by the death of Dido's father. However, it is not gloomy, but more thoughtful and serious. Entertainment Weekly's Chris Willman also praised the album. Dido seems a bit reserved, but this is just right for a series of cool songs that are about feeling distant. Willie von Sputnikmusic described the album as good and particularly sounded out the more personal and adult note.

Guardian critic Maddy Costa attested the album an atmosphere of desolation and fragility. The main problem she named Dido's low voice, which lacks expressiveness. Slant's Sal Cinquemanicalled the album the least adventurous Dido album. Still, the songs remain timeless and her voice is as smooth as ever. PopMatters' David Smiththought the album was less than good, but also found good sides. In this way, pain as a recurring theme can also be heard in her voice and gives her a new maturity.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dido bringing it all "Home" in November. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Back Home . In: Billboard . tape 120 , no. 36 . Nielsen Business Media, Inc., September 6, 2008, ISSN  0006-2510 , p. 38 .
3. ↑ Dido reveals new album details. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Dido: Safe Trip Home. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Dido "Don't Believe In Love" - ​​Spin It or Sling It? Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Astronaut sues Dido over album cover. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Safe Trip Home. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
8. ↑ DIDO - SAFE TRIP HOME. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
9. ↑ DIDO - SAFE TRIP HOME. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Safe Trip Home. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Chart Search. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
12. ↑ SAFE TRIP HOME. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Safe Trip Home. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Pop review: Dido, Safe Trip Home. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Safe Trip Home. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Safe Trip Home. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Pop review: Dido, Safe Trip Home. Retrieved January 20, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Review: Dido, Safe Trip Home. Retrieved January 20, 2019 .